Couldn't agree with you more DLR. You would think the team would have come out inspired and would have their managers back last night. The thing that bothers me the most is the approach the hitters are taking in their at bats. Perfect example is Cano. The at bat before A-Rod choked and couldn't produce a sac fly. Cano is up there....men on 1st and 2nd 3-1 count and he is swinging at ball 4 low and inside and grounds out. Their whole hitting philosophy is what gets me. It's a very greedy approach. Instead of moving the lineup along and passing the baton, each guy is way too eager to be the hero. Too many guys swinging for the fences instead of cutting down their swing with 2 strikes or being happy with a walk. Cano walks in that spot their looking at bases loaded no out. Granted Alexis probably does nothing but there is still only one out. Swisher, who is also useless in the postseason gets up and hits what would have been a sac fly after Arod. It's not a given that Swisher would have produced a sac fly.....could have struck out or hit into a dp instead but if Cano, who if he was a smart ballplayer could be an all time great, would have approached his at bat smartly, your giving your team 2 chances to produce a sac fly instead of one. Very frustrating. It's frustrating too that there is a generation of Yankee fans now who don't know what it was like before 1996. 1993-1994-1995.....those were exciting, great years.....guys like Boggs and Donnie Baseball preached patience at the plate and led by example. None of these fugazzi Yankee fans even know who the hell Stump Merrill is or know about the lean years. Baseball isn't all about hitting home runs and star power....it's not a brutish game....it's still a game of thought combined with skill. Anyway,Go Yanks.
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